liquidio: Prioritize control messages

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During heavy tx traffic, control messages (sent by liquidio driver to NIC
firmware) sometimes do not get processed in a timely manner.  Reason is:
the low-level metadata of control messages and that of egress network
packets indicate that they have the same priority.

Fix it by setting a higher priority for control messages through the new
ctrl_qpg field in the oct_txpciq struct.  It is the NIC firmware that does
the actual setting of priority by writing to the new ctrl_qpg field; the
host driver treats that value as opaque and just assigns it to pki_ih3->qpg

Signed-off-by: Intiyaz Basha <intiyaz.basha@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Intiyaz Basha 2018-03-27 19:25:18 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/liquidio_common.h

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drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/request_manager.c

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